Rabbi Lee Buckman is Founding Head of School, the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metro Detroit. He was a participant in Lookstein's Principals' Program and now serves as a mentor. In this issue we introduce a new feature – an action research project conducted by a...
Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish Studies at Machon Pardes and other university level programs in Jerusalem. Hasidic masters who actively supported and took part in the Zionist enterprise comprise a largely neglected chapter of the Zionist...
Dr. David Breakstone has been engaged in the field of teaching Israel for more than 30 years. He currently serves as the head of the Department for Zionist Activities of the World Zionist Organization, where he is also represents the worldwide Masorti (Conservative)...
Dr. Alick Isaacs teaches at the Melton Center for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and directs the Advanced Bet Midrash program at the Shalom Hartman Institute. The New Question of Israel Education The Jewish experience of political sovereignty...
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Steve Israel is an educator whose passion is Jewish Peoplehood. He specializes in informal Jewish education, educator training and writing educational materials. Recently he has been especially engaged in helping to develop informal educational structures in central...
Ask most lay people what comes to mind when they hear the term "gender" and they are likely to say something about women's issues or feminism. Ask most educators what comes to mind when they hear the term "gender" and they are likely to say something about girls in...
Wendy Grinberg is Associate Director of the Union for Reform Judaism's Department of Lifelong Jewish Learning. What does general culture tell boys and girls to think about themselves and about the other? What can Judaism contribute to a reorienting of these gender...
Dr. Menucha Cohen Amir is a lecturer in education at Bar-Ilan University, and is the head of the Informal Education department at the Efrata Teacher Training College. Dr. Elana Sztokman is contributing editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. How much of...
Chaya R. Gorsetman, Ed.D is a Clinical Assistant Professor and supervisor of the Early Childhood Education Track at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. She served as the director and co-author of the JOFA Gender and Orthodoxy Curriculum Project, Bereshit: A...
